David Walliams, Roald Dahl and the BFG

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The comedian reveals why he’s the author’s biggest fan and talks about dressing up as the Big Friendly Giant for charity

David Walliams is no stranger to fancy dress, as any Little Britain
viewer will tell you. But his latest incarnation, as Roald Dahl’s
dream-catching BFG (Big Friendly Giant), is perhaps the most unexpected.
“The BFG is a fantastic character — scary at first, but then you learn to
love him,” he says. “I love that he has his own language. Using right and
left instead of right and wrong, or human beans instead of beings; - it’s
brilliant.”

A huge Dahl fan, Walliams was asked to step into the BFG’s trousers by
Felicity, Dahl’s wife, to inspire children to dress up as